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LAGENARIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Bottle gourds

Synonyms:

genus Lagenaria; Lagenaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Lagenaria" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Lagenaria"):

bottle gourd; calabash; Lagenaria siceraria (Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits)

Holonyms ("Lagenaria" is a member of...):

Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))

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